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...story on why diarrhea kills millions of children every year was meant to be the remedy for the condition: "A Fistful of Sugar + A Pinch of Salt + A Jug of Water" [Oct. 16]. The formula, however, was missing a crucial word: clean. The lack of clean water is the problem and the real cause of diarrhea in most cases. Anyone who has spent time in a refugee camp knows that it takes a lot of effort to purify water?and that you need the right tools to do so. Nevertheless, congratulations on picking this deadly issue for your cover story...
...anything, even more extreme. Mahmoud al-Mashhadani, the Speaker of the Council of Representatives and Iraq's highest-ranking Sunni, has been closely associated with Ansar al-Islam, an al-Qaeda-linked terrorist group that has targeted Shi'ites and secular Iraqis. He has blamed Iraq's problems on the Jews and has said statues should be erected to those who kill American troops. President Bush has lavishly praised both al-Mashhadani and al-Maliki, but flattery has not produced statesmanship. The real problem is that they reflect the views of their respective communities, which voted overwhelmingly for them...
...enjoyed doing cigarette commercials because they always just come up with great ideas. I did those for years, and they were great filmic, episodic commercials. The problem is, they were about smoking...
DAWKINS: People who believe in God conclude there must have been a divine knob twiddler who twiddled the knobs of these half-dozen constants to get them exactly right. The problem is that this says, because something is vastly improbable, we need a God to explain it. But that God himself would be even more improbable. Physicists have come up with other explanations. One is to say that these six constants are not free to vary. Some unified theory will eventually show that they are as locked in as the circumference and the diameter of a circle. That reduces...
ROOKS These crowlike birdbrains are actually problem solvers. Animal behaviorists in Britain found this year that rooks can learn how to get a piece of food out of a trap...